The Great Dan Patch

The Great Dan Patch

WHAT A TIME FOR LIVING!...AND WHAT A GREAT LOVE STORY THEY LIVED!

NR 1949 · 94 min · ★ 5.5 · Adventure, Drama, Romance

David Palmer, a young chemist, returns to his father's Indiana farm, to marry a local school teacher, Ruth Treadwell. David meets again his father's horse-trainer, Ben Lathrop, whose daughter, Cissy, has left high school to help her father. Palmer marries and becomes wealthy through an invention, and is able to indulge his socially-ambitious wife. His father dies and Palmer returns to Indiana, where his interest in harness-racing is rekindled, as is his interest in Cissy Lathrop.

Directed by Joseph M. Newman · Written by John Taintor Foote

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Dennis O'Keefe David Palmer
Gail Russell Cissy Lathrop
Ruth Warrick Ruth Treadwell
Charlotte Greenwood Aunt Netty
Henry Hull Dan Palmer
John Hoyt Ben Lathrop
Arthur Hunnicutt Chet Williams
Clarence Muse Voodoo
Harry Lauter Bud Ransome
Highland Dale Dan Patch, a Horse
Everett Brown Stablehand

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